3D Printer Built 10 Homes in 24 Hours

This design actually seems pretty interesting - one of the advantages of additive manufacturing by printing is that the resultant parts can be made with a strong internal structure (triangles, honeycombs, etc.) while still being made of mostly air, an outcome that&#x27;s difficult to achieve using molding&#x2F;casting, forging, or subtractive manufacturing (milling).<p>I also suspect that the mostly-hollow walls have a decent R-value on their own.<p>I do wonder how this competes with straw bale &#x2F; rammed earth, shipping containers, and other recycled, rapid prefab building manufacturing.<p>&quot;Making cheap houses for the poor&quot; seems to be a common design+architecture firm&#x2F;student theme - does anyone know of any success&#x2F;failure stories where these &quot;cheap house&quot; designs were applied in real life?

The speed is what&#x27;s impressive. One can build a structure in California for a similar price.<p>It seems people often over estimate the hard costs of construction in the first world. It&#x27;s cheaper than people think.<p>In 2005, at the height of the building boom (labor was scarce) in Southern California, I built a 400 sq ft detached garage: Stucco, rolled composite roof, concrete slab, drywall, swiss coffee interior paint, garage door, and 30R insulation in the ceiling (well insulated).<p>Using all contracted labor.<p>Total cost: $5,500.<p>IOW, not much more than this 3D printed house. Building a house in 2.4 hours is the impressive part.

Built on pre-existing foundation. No kitchen nor bathroom in evidence. So for 2nd-world poor housing, maybe.

Not sure why this is currently front page. They could have built even better houses had they used what is referred to around here as &#x27;tilt-up&#x27; construction. You pour a concrete foundation, You stake out four wall forms around that foundation and pour in the walls, when they cure you tilt them up and tie the tops together with steel. Boom, &quot;instant&quot; building with windows and doors.

If only they could print something for me, the sophisticated urbanite. I will be very impressed when a high-rise condo can get squirted out the business-end of this thing.<p>Ah sweet: Future of Construction Process: 3D Concrete Printing<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfbhdZKPHro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EfbhdZKPHro</a>

This is cool, it does seem unfortunate that Behrokh Khoshnevis and the University of Southern California haven&#x27;t gone and done this already given how long they have been developing contour crafting, moon bases are great and all, but cheap housing is immediately practical and in dire need in California.

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